The Telling Itself

Human Kind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality


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Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,

Hidden excitedly, containing laughter.
Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.

T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets 

NOTES: 

How racial inequalities contributed to Darwin's evolutionary theories: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gbf2g 

Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture (by Elise Aaltola): https://book4you.org/book/2687438/e43ff7 

Jo Jo's Jacket (Stephen Malkmus): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS90RLeWILY&ab_channel=Hubadaeus 

Eliot reading Four Quartets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga8tQrG4ZSw&ab_channel=vinyhilist

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The Telling ItselfBy Steve Tell